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    Uberskills reacted to nicehat in MRI machine records and explains "out of body experiences"   
    University of Ottawa researchers were able to find and study an undergraduate woman with no brain abnormalities who was able to experience out of body hallucinations at will. The woman was hooked up to a plethora of scanning machines, put through an MRI during the out of body event and interviewed before and afterwards. After the event the woman described herself as floating above and able to observe herself completely unaware of her physical body.
     
    In her own words:
     
    “I feel myself moving, or, more accurately, can make myself feel as if I am moving. I know perfectly well that I am not actually moving. There is no duality of body and mind when this happens, not really. In fact, I am hyper-sensitive to my body at that point, because I am concentrating so hard on the sensation of moving. I am the one moving – me – my body. For example, if I ‘spin’ for long enough, I get dizzy. I do not see myself above my body. Rather, my whole body has moved up. I feel it as being above where I know it actually is. I usually also picture myself as moving up in my mind’s eye, but the mind is not substantive. It does not move unless the body does.”
     
    While the patient described the floating event, the MRI indeed showed an altered brain activity consistent with patients in a comatose or semi comatose state. The MRI recorded a de-activated visual cortex (back of your head) which is one of the terminal points of visual signals from the eyes. When deactivated, the body loses its orientation and relation to the world at large. This may not be the case with the blind as other senses like the inner ear are more adapt at 3D spatial orientation. 
     

    Here we see areas of the visual cortex being deactivated
     

    Here we see different parts of the brain being activated during the out of body expereience
     
     
    With this information, researchers believe that out of body experiences are essentially hallucinations (defined by a certain stimulus being interpreted when none originally existed ex hearing voices, when none are apparent). These hallucinations seem to be triggered by a combination of neurological mechanisms involving activations of certain parts of the brain responsible for motor movement and deactivation of others like the visual cortex. 
     
    For anyone who have heard stories of people experiencing out of body experiences while at the hospital, you should know that this may be an elaborate hallucination rather than the "soul". In any case, they are probably telling the truth
     
    http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00070/full
     
     
    slightly OFFTOPIC RANT:
    Now I just want to rant a bit here. With the exception of a few better known members, many of the tech news posts are just quotes, links, and utter pieces of trash. I put a bit of effort into this, and would like to see a bit of actual effort being put into news section posts instead of this bullshit First post mentality. Posting a direct quote/a line or two of your own, and a source link makes you an asshole. Spark discussion and put some goddamn effort into it.
     
    Scroll down and take a look at the first 20-30 news post submissions and with a few exceptions, you will see the current state of our LTT News section
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    Uberskills reacted to AMD Lover in SLI & Crossfire in the Same PC at the Same Time??   
    OR CAN YOU???
     
    #slickdishes

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    Uberskills reacted to noc in Reasons why PC gaming is better than console gaming   
    Here's an example
     

     
    Could it be Anti-aliasing?
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    Uberskills reacted to Hanoverfist in Hanover's "Brandywine" Complete with Final Photo's   
    Smiles.....
     
     
     
     
    Here is a little taste of Air Brushing..
     
     
     
     
     
     
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqwHK-ZVqRs
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Follow up shots of Completed Mesh.
     
     
     

     

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    Uberskills reacted to Coombzy in What have you guys stolen?   
    I stole a chicken once the skyrim guards were not amused
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    Uberskills got a reaction from jdh6uacm9q8 in Harddrive Dilemma   
    i'm already extremely pushing the budget with my plans to upgrade above in the original post and they are pretty cheap its about $100 for 2 TB, but how much do you think someone will pay for a 500W corsair power supply and a Asrock Z77 extreme 4 i'm thinking $140-$160 max for both?
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    Uberskills got a reaction from jdh6uacm9q8 in Harddrive Dilemma   
    Well i am planning to get a corsair carbide 540 air, i have wanted this case day one it has come out and i don't have the money right now to do much with this problem, well i have 4 harddrives in my current system it may seem like alot of space but 3 of them are 150GB each and the fourth one is 372GB which is a weird amount when i first installed it. Well it has come to my knowledge that the 540 air case that i want to get has only 2 mounts for 3.5" hard drives, i can fit everything i have onto 2 hard drives which is fine but may take a while to do and thats only with 180GB to spare so my options are get the case and put one of these in http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=24587 so the i can have a harddrive inside the 5.25" bays and the other one being occupied by a fan controller and fill the other 2 spaces with the current harddrives i have or keep everything and try and find a way to ghetto mount a 3.5" drive inside the 4 tool-free 2.5" bays. this will be a temporary fix i will later on get a 2-3TB drive and then an SSD as i font have one but i can likely salvage one from a laptop in the next year or buy a 256 GB Samsung or other cheaply priced SSD once i get the money for it, if you want to see the system i am planning to upgrade here it is it is quite expensive but its well worth it http://i.imgur.com/0JVB3P4.jpg?1
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    Uberskills reacted to Kobz360 in Australia makes history! - Cheaper 280x Prices than US   
    Thank you, thank you, these few days will forever go down in Australian history as the golden age of computer parts. When my kids are buying they're Intel i7 15770K's and are complaining about the price, I'll show them this thread. When NVIDIA's flag ship card costs $1500AUD, I'll show them this thread. It's truly heart warming. 
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    Uberskills reacted to Ashley in No more unboxings in Linus Tech Tips in 2014?   
    I think you could do fewer unboxings but focus on making good reviews and guides, but not abandon unboxings all together.
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    Uberskills reacted to Ethnod in "I buy console for the exclusive titles." PC MasterRace :D   
    So Logan just posted this, I thought it was funny and wanted to share
     

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    Uberskills reacted to helping in Does anyone know of a "Detailed Skyrim" that doesn't go overboard?   
    Be sure to add this gem in.
    Will increased quality of experience at least 3 fold.

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    Uberskills reacted to Fetzie in Kano kit offers an easier way to make a low-cost Rasperry Pi computer   
    If all they do is look at their email, youtube and facebook, it is perfectly viable as a desktop machine
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    Uberskills reacted to Glenwing in Gaming Image Quality Showdown - PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 & PC   
    THE SUSPENSE
     
    Oh, wait... I already know the ending...  :rolleyes:
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    Uberskills reacted to Alcatraz in Gaming Image Quality Showdown - PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 & PC   
    Linus, you are clearly post farming, which is against the CoC. Someone ban this clown.
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    Uberskills reacted to delet my acc pls in Tech bag   
    SSD
    780Ti
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    Uberskills reacted to Eyal in Snapgragon 805 announced!   
    right, when you are on the cutting edge, you get a hole in your pocket!
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    Uberskills reacted to Joshua in Codename: 'Murica   
    Everything seems fine...32 FANS!? THAT'S OVERKILL!!!
    This is wildly unnecessary, unless you're trying to play Runescape or something 
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    Uberskills reacted to Emkryan in Codename: 'Murica   
    Wait for 9XXX series 
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    Uberskills reacted to Lukiose in Call of Duty Ghosts PC Requirements   
    Nvidia wants to sell their 780 at present MSRP asap before they are forced to lower the price lol
    50GB : Base game [20%] + 42 DLC maps [20%] + Dog [30%] + Fishes [30%]
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    Uberskills reacted to Fetzie in Call of Duty Ghosts PC Requirements   
    No point using an SSD for games where you are limited by the slowest PC in the match, which is invariably a Texas Instruments calculator from 1976.
     
    Maybe you need the 780 to get the same performance as an R9-280/HD 7950 with MANTLE, given that Activision published games are supposed to support the new AMD API?
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    Uberskills reacted to beebskadoo in Call of Duty Ghosts PC Requirements   
    780? hmm, I smell a marketing deal. This game will run at max at the minimum specs. What a fail...
    50GB? This must be for the 23 map packs and 16 different weapons packs + the secret preorder DLC and the High res dog textures. 
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    Uberskills reacted to Hoppa in Cool Ways to Start a Computer   
    Hand crank start... like on an old car
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    Uberskills reacted to MrWizard in Moderator Appreciation Thread   
    y'all don't even know me.
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    Uberskills reacted to looney in Moderator Appreciation Thread   
    Its the one I have macro'd
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